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Opening times for Carphone Warehouse in Galashiels
Galashiels (Channel St) is a shop forming a part of Carphone Warehouse brand. It is open on: Monday 09:00 - 17:30, Tuesday 09:00 - 17:30, Wednesday 09:00 - 17:30, Thursday 09:00 - 17:30, Friday 09:00 - 17:30. At weekends its working hours are: on Saturday 09:00 - 17:30, on Sunday 0:00 - 0:00. This store's address is: 44 Channel Street, TD1 1BA, Galashiels. To reach the customer service directly please dial the number 08435 38 1143. Galashiels (Channel St) is attended by many people living in neighbouring towns like Blainslie, Clovenfords, Fountainhall, Stow, Tweedbank.
Carphone Warehouse Opening Times
Due to the current situation, opening hours may vary. Please contact the branch directly.
Category: Store
44 Channel Street
TD1 1BA
Carphone Warehouse near me
Carphone Warehouse in Galashiels, Unit 3 Comely Bank Mill Retail Park (0.42 mile)
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Benefit payments under workers' compensation programs in the United States during 1992-93 stabilized in comparison with the experience of prior years, which had been marked by substantial growth. In 1992, the total benefit amount of $44.7 billion was 5.9 percent higher than the amount in 1991. The 1993 benefit amount of $42.9 billion represented a 3.9 percent decrease from the amount in 1992. From 1991 to 1993, benefits increased by only 1.8 percent. The payments for 1993 included $25.4 billion in wage-loss compensation and $17.5 billion for medical care.
Employer costs of providing workers' compensation was $55 billion in 1992 and $57.3 billion in 1993. The cost of protection per covered employee was $597 in 1993, equal to $2.30 per $100 of payroll. In the same year, there were 96.1 million workers covered under Federal and State programs.
This article examines 1992–93 program experience in terms of benefits, costs, and the components of change.


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KENNETH LEIGHTON (1929-1988): Sonata No. 3, Op. 27, Sonata, Op. 64, 5 Preludes, Winter Scenes.
Label: Chandos
Description: The three-CD "complete" Leighton piano music set we offered in March of 2006 wasn't quite all of it: the Third Sonata and Winter Scenes are world premiere recordings. The Scenes (1953) are quite neo-romantic (or neo-Impressionistic), depicting "Landscape", "The Wind", "Mist", "Woodsprites", "By the Fireside" and "Snowflakes" before a final "Carol". But in the sonata, from only a year later, shows Leighton under the influence of serial techniques although the melodic lines remain within tonal boundaries while the dissonance and chromaticism mark the work as a significant development in the composer's language. Margaret Fingerhut (piano).

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Skoda starts production of Citigoe iV full-battery EV
Citigo EV. Source: Skoda
VW Group has just brought yet another full-battery electric vehicle to the European market.
Sadly, it is also one that we will likely never see in Australia. The car? It is the Citigoe iV by VW Group member Skoda, and built at the Volkswagen plant in the Slovakian capital, Bratislava.
The Citigoe iV is an all-new five door, front-wheel drive, full-battery electric vehicle (BEV). It is designed as a city car and boasts a 32.2 kWh usable battery capacity, 61kW electric motor and 212Nm of torque with the reasonable (if not startling) performance figures of 0 to 100km/h in 12.3 sec and a top speed of 130km/h.
In everyday conditions, with a fully charged battery the Citigoe iV has a range of up to 260km on the WLTP cycle. (For an explanation of EV test cycles, see here ).
Charging is at up to 7.2kW on an AC EVSE – which would give it a 0 – 100% charge in around 5hrs. It also charges at a maximum of 40kW on a DC fast-charger, meaning a 0 – 80% fast-charge time of 1hr.
Being a city car – it has compact dimensions at 3,597mm long and 1,645mm high and seating for 4 passengers. By folding down the rear seats, the capacity of the boot can be increased from 250L to 923L.
It is also not a 'bare-bones' entrant to the EV market: the Citigoe iV comes standard with fog lights, LED daytime running lights, lane keeping assist and multiple airbags, along with such options as heated front seats, light and rain sensors, a 'Coming/Leaving Home' function, rear parking sensors, six speaker sound system and 16-inch alloy wheels. UK pricing begins at around £20,500 before government grants (AU$39,000).
Sadly, given the current Australian fad for large SUVs (that get almost exclusively used for commuting around suburban areas), it is also unlikely to be brought here to Australia. This is despite it being an ideal candidate for a second family vehicle/first taste of practical and affordable full-battery EV ownership.
So over to you: what do you think of the Skoda Citigoe iV? Would you buy one if it became available here?
Bryce Gaton
Bryce Gaton is an expert on electric vehicles and contributor for The Driven and Renew Economy. He has been working in the EV sector for 10 years, and also is editor of the Australian Electric Vehicle Association newsletter.
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Morgengrauen ist ein deutscher Kurzfilm des Regisseurs Jürgen Hilgert und des Produzenten Gerhard Schmidt (Produktionsfirma "cinestudio", Bonn) aus dem Jahr 1963.

Handlung
Der Kurz-Spielfilm "Morgengrauen" handelt von der Auseinandersetzung eines Individuums mit der Gesellschaft in der Form einer Parabel: Eines Morgens erwacht ein Mann in einem Wald. Neben sich findet er ein Dummy, eine Schaufensterpuppe in Gestalt einer taubstummen Eva, zu der er über alles und jedes, über Gott und die Welt reden kann. Unentwegt sprechend, erschafft er sich Wort für Wort seine eigene Welt, sein eigenes Paradies. Als er wieder auf Menschen trifft, zunächst noch betäubt von seiner selbstbesessenen Welt-Anschauung, findet er, letztendlich ent-täuscht, in die Wirklichkeit einer Gesellschaft zurück, zu seinem Glück.

Hintergrund
Der Kurz-Spielfilm – 18 Minuten; 35 mm; schwarz-weiß; deutschsprachig – ist Ende 1962/Anfang 1963 von Jürgen Hilgert und Gerhard Schmidt in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Autor Gerd Hergen Lübben und dem Komponisten Georg Müller erarbeitet worden; die Hauptrolle übernahm der Contra-Kreis-Schauspieler Wolfgang Strohmeyer. Das Filmemacher-Team Hilgert/Lübben/Müller/Schmidt war bereits 1961 mit dem durch die "Staatsbürgerliche Bildungsstelle des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen" geförderten Kurzfilm "Flucht" erfolgreich. – "Morgengrauen" wurde am 8. Februar 1963 in Bonn im Rahmen der "Fünften öffentlichen Veranstaltung der Bühne für sinnliche Wahrnehmung – KONZIL" erstaufgeführt sowie dann auf Filmfestivals in Oberhausen (Westdeutsche Kurzfilmtage; hier prämiert), Mannheim (Internationale Filmwoche) und Amsterdam (Kriterion – International Film Study Days) gezeigt. In deutsche Kinos gelangte "Morgengrauen" als Vorfilm zum dritten Spielfilm des Regisseurs Alain Resnais, "Muriel oder Die Zeit der Wiederkehr" (»Muriel ou Le Temps d'un Retour«).

Rezeption
Fünfzig Jahre nach Entstehung und gepriesenen ersten Präsentationen des Kurz-Spielfilms von Hilgert und Schmidt, muss "Morgengrauen" als vermisst, wenn nicht gar als verschollen gelten; "filmportal.de": "Sie haben diesen Film gesehen? Dann freuen wir uns auf Ihren Beitrag!"

Einzelnachweise

Weblinks
 KOBV-Suche: Morgengrauen
 Filmportal.de: Kurz-Spielfilm Morgengrauen
 Gerd Hergen Lübben: "Morgengrauen (1963)"

Filmtitel 1963
Schwarzweißfilm
Deutscher Film
Kurzfilm

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Q: error: cannot find symbol [compiler error] Hey I'm just starting my first programming class with java. In class, we made a very basic code for adding up numbers in a harmonic series. I get an error: cannot find symbol for x on the line total+= (1.0/(x+1)).
Here's the code:
public class Group1
{
public static void main(String[]args)
    {
        foo(3);
    }
public static void foo(int n)
    {
    double total = 0;
    for (int x = 0; x < n; x++);
        {
        total+= (1.0/(x+1));
        }
    System.out.println(total);
    }
}

I would appreciate any answers. I've been messing around trying get it  an hour. I can't believe I couldn't find something so simple. Thank you for any help.

A: Remove the ; at the end of the for loop. By adding semi colon at the end, you are limiting the scope of the variable x
for (int x = 0; x < n; x++); // <--- remove this semi colon

A: Remove semi colon at the end of for statement. Basically in your code scope of variable is inside for loop only and since you are closing the for loop by putting a semi colon, x is gone after that.

A: change for (int x = 0; x < n; x++); to for (int x = 0; x < n; x++)

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<?php

require __DIR__ . '/vendor/autoload.php';

require_once "ratepay_credentials.php";

/******************************************************
 * The PaymentRequest requests authorization of order *
 ******************************************************/

$mbHead = new RatePAY\ModelBuilder();
$mbHead->setArray([
    'SystemId' => "Example",
    'Credential' => [
        'ProfileId' => PROFILE_ID,
        'Securitycode' => SECURITYCODE
    ]
]);

$rb = new RatePAY\RequestBuilder(true);
$paymentInit = $rb->callPaymentInit($mbHead);
if (!$paymentInit->isSuccessful()) die("PaymentInit not successful");

// Extending head model with required customer device information
$mbHead->setTransactionId($paymentInit->getTransactionId());
$mbHead->setCustomerDevice(
    $mbHead->CustomerDevice()->setDeviceToken("1234567890")
);
// External commits additional information about customer and order. Is optional.
$mbHead->setArray([
    'External' => [
        'MerchantConsumerId' => "1234567", // Customer Id
        'OrderId' => "xyzabc"
        //'MerchantConsumerClassification' => "X"
        //'ShopLanguage' => "DEU"
        //'ReferenceId' => "xyzabc"
    ]
]);

// The PaymentRequest requires a content model.

// Building content model
$mbContent = new RatePAY\ModelBuilder('Content');
$contentArr = [
    'Customer' => [
        'Gender' => "f",
        //'Salutation' => "Mrs.",
        //'Title' => "Dr.",
        'FirstName' => "Alice",
        //'MiddleName' => "J.",
        'LastName' => "Nobodyknows",
        //'NameSuffix' => "Sen.",
        'DateOfBirth' => "1975-12-17",
        //'Nationality' => "DE",
        'IpAddress' => "127.0.0.1",
        'Addresses' => [
            [
                'Address' => [
                    'Type' => "billing",
                    'Street' => "Hive Street 12",
                    //'StreetAdditional' => "SubLevel 27",
                    //'StreetNumber' => "12",
                    'ZipCode' => "12345",
                    'City' => "Raccoon City",
                    'CountryCode' => "de",
                ]
            ], [
                'Address' => [
                    'Type' => "delivery",
                    //'Salutation' => "Mrs.",
                    'FirstName' => "Alice",
                    'LastName' => "Nobodyknows",
                    //'Company' => "Umbrella Corp.",
                    'Street' => "Hive Street 12",
                    //'StreetAdditional' => "SubLevel 27",
                    //'StreetNumber' => "12",
                    'ZipCode' => "12345",
                    'City' => "Raccoon City",
                    'CountryCode' => "de",
                ]
            ]
        ],
        'Contacts' => [
            'Email' => "alice@umbrella.tld",
            //'Mobile' => "0123 4567890",
            'Phone' => [
                //'AreaCode' => "012",
                'DirectDial' => "012 3456789"
            ],
            //'Fax' => "012 3456777",
        ],
        /*'BankAccount' => [ // In case of payment method 'elv'
            'Owner' => "Alice Nobodyknows",
            'Iban' => "DE12345678901234567890",
            'BicSwift' => "123456789",
            //'BankName' => "Umbrella Finance",
            //'BankAccountNumber' => "1234567890",
            //'BankCode' => "12345678",
        ],*/
        // 'CompanyName' => "Umbrella Corp.",
        // 'CompanyType' => "AG",
        // 'VatId' => "DE123456789",
        // 'CompanyId' => "HRB 123456X",
        // 'RegistryLocation' => "Raccoon City",
        // 'Homepage' => "http://www.umbrellacorporation.tld",
    ],
    'ShoppingBasket' => [
        'Items' => [
            [
                'Item' => [
                    'Description' => "Test product 1",
                    'ArticleNumber' => "ArtNo1",
                    //'UniqueArticleNumber' => "ArtNo1-variation123",
                    'Quantity' => 1,
                    'UnitPriceGross' => 300,
                    'TaxRate' => 19,
                    //'Category' => "Additional information about the product"
                    //'DescriptionAddition' => "Additional information about the product"
                ]
            ], [
                'Item' => [
                    'Description' => "Test product 2",
                    'ArticleNumber' => "ArtNo2",
                    'Quantity' => 2,
                    'UnitPriceGross' => 100,
                    'TaxRate' => 19,
                    'Discount' => 10
                ]
            ]
        ],
        'Shipping' => [
            'Description' => "Shipping costs",
            'UnitPriceGross' => 4.95,
            'TaxRate' => 19,
            //'DescriptionAddition' => "Additional information about the shipping"
        ],
        'Discount' => [
            'Description' => "Discount 20 EUR",
            'UnitPriceGross' => 20,
            'TaxRate' => 19,
            //'DescriptionAddition' => "Additional information about the discount"
        ]
    ],
    'Payment' => [
        'Method' => "invoice", // "installment", "elv", "prepayment"
        'Amount' => 464.95
    ]
];
$mbContent->setArray($contentArr);

$rb = new RatePAY\RequestBuilder(true); // Sandbox mode = true
$paymentRequest = $rb->callPaymentRequest($mbHead, $mbContent);

if (!$paymentRequest->isSuccessful()) die("PaymentRequest not successful");

// The PaymentRequest response object provides following methods:
// getTransactionId();   // Returns transaction id (unique transaction identifier) {string}
// isRetryAdmitted();    // Returns whether retry is admitted {boolean}
// getCustomerMessage(); // Returns customer message {string}

var_dump($paymentRequest->getTransactionId());
// If the order gets rejected by RatePAY because of invalid inputs (like invalid zip code or iban), a retry of order is allowed.
var_dump($paymentRequest->isRetryAdmitted());
// If retry of order is allowed, the there will be a customer message with further information.
var_dump($paymentRequest->getCustomerMessage());

// Example of rejection with allowed retry and customer message:

$mbHead = new RatePAY\ModelBuilder();
$mbHead->setArray([
    'SystemId' => "Example",
    'Credential' => [
        'ProfileId' => PROFILE_ID,
        'Securitycode' => SECURITYCODE
    ]
]);

$paymentInit = $rb->callPaymentInit($mbHead);

$mbHead->setTransactionId($paymentInit->getTransactionId());
$mbHead->setCustomerDevice(
    $mbHead->CustomerDevice()->setDeviceToken("1234567890")
);

$contentArr['Customer']['Addresses'][0]['Address']['ZipCode'] = "1234";
$mbContent->setArray($contentArr);

$rb = new RatePAY\RequestBuilder(true);
$paymentRequest = $rb->callPaymentRequest($mbHead, $mbContent);

var_dump($paymentRequest->isRetryAdmitted());
var_dump($paymentRequest->getCustomerMessage());

/*********************************************************************************************************************************
 * The library throws decidedly exceptions. It's recommended to surround model building and request calls with try-catch-blocks. *
 *********************************************************************************************************************************/

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I know, I know, what's wrong with me, right?
Spring Break. As a young child, this was a fun week where you spent time playing with friends in the front yard, and running around with no sense of responsibility. As you grow older and gain more responsibilities in school and life, you yearn for that one week of freedom, that one week before a few months summer vacation where you get a glimpse of what your near future holds.
Growing up in a beach town, high school spring break nearly always consisted of days tanning on the sand, playing in the sand and surf. So if anyone understands the appeal to the beach during spring break, it's me. But now that I'm in college, I think it was time to do something new.
Every year, thousands of college students flock to the Florida beaches, cramming the shoreline for a week of sand, sun, and surf. Most of the time, the week is a drunken haze and they come back saying they had the best time ever. Did they really though?
I think that some of the best times I have ever had were time spent out in the wilderness. That's why this year, I've decided to, along with a few friends, camp out in the Georgia mountains for almost a week. The trees, the hiking, the stillness of life around you. As a college student, you don't get to enjoy the slow-paced life that often, and this is a chance to do it. There is nothing better than sitting under a star-filled sky, roasting hot dogs over a hot fire, all of your hard work of setting up camp and hiking to your destination paying off.
So I challenge you. I challenge you as college students to abandon the norm for our spring break rituals, to forgo the parties and drunken hazes on the beach. I challenge you to lose yourself in the joys of wilderness, to find adventure in the great wide somewhere, and to enjoy the gift that Mother Nature provided us. You never know, you could just have an amazing time.


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Role of microbial enzymes in flavor development in foods
K. M. Shahani, R. G. Arnold, A. Kilara, B. K. Dwivedi
There are four main sources of enzymes in foods—these being the inherent enzymes, enzymes from microbial contaminants, enzymes elaborated by microorganisms added to foods, and specific enzymes added to foods. This study primarily deals with the latter two sources of enzymes in food. Although both plants and animals serve as sources of enzymes, they are not as economical or versatile sources as are enzymes obtained from microorganisms. In the meat industry, proteases are used to tenderize muscle and to obtain flavor precursors. In the preparation of cured meat products such as sausages, lipases, and proteases from bacterial cultures are utilized. Similarly, proteases and lipases are used in the dairy industry to develop flavor compounds. Proteases and amylases also have applications in the baking and milling industries where they are used to produce precursors for the nonenzymatic browning reactions. Carbohydrases such as amylase, amyloglucosidase, and glucose isomerase have found usage in the starch and syrup industry for the production of high dextrose and high fructose syrups. Other enzymes such as glucose oxidase, pectinase, and naringinase are of value to the wine and fruit juice industries. A better understanding of the mode of action of enzymes as well as the mechanisms of development of flavor compounds will further enhance the use of microbial enzymes to develop specific and desired flavors in foods.
https://doi.org/10.1002/bit.260180703
10.1002/bit.260180703
Fingerprint Dive into the research topics of 'Role of microbial enzymes in flavor development in foods'. Together they form a unique fingerprint.
Flavors Engineering & Materials Science
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Shahani, K. M., Arnold, R. G., Kilara, A., & Dwivedi, B. K. (1976). Role of microbial enzymes in flavor development in foods. Biotechnology and bioengineering, 18(7), 891-907. https://doi.org/10.1002/bit.260180703
Shahani, K. M. ; Arnold, R. G. ; Kilara, A. ; Dwivedi, B. K. / Role of microbial enzymes in flavor development in foods. In: Biotechnology and bioengineering. 1976 ; Vol. 18, No. 7. pp. 891-907.
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Is that burning sensation in your chest simply heartburn or the sign of something much worse? It's not always easy to tell.
Unfortunately, the stakes couldn't be higher. Forty percent of women and 30 percent of men with coronary artery disease experience this symptom, cardiologist Barbara Williams, MD says.
In general, heartburn usually feels like an ache just under the tip of the breastbone, indigestion or indigestion with nausea, Dr. Williams says. Coronary artery disease involves symptoms radiating throughout the upper torso, from the lower jaw to the waistline, and including the neck, upper back, both arms and stomach area.
The timing of symptoms may give you a clue that indigestion is the problem, says bariatric surgeon Leena Khaitan, MD. Symptoms may occur after a heavy meal or after consuming chocolate, peppermint or caffeine.
If the symptoms of indigestion last more than five minutes or are intermittent – and especially if the indigestion is associated with nausea or vomiting or heavy sweating – Dr. Williams advises to go straight to the ER.
Women and men also should understand their risks for developing coronary artery disease: age, high blood pressure, and elevated blood sugar and cholesterol levels. Although smoking increases the risk of heart disease for both genders, women who light up are more likely to suffer a heart attack than men who smoke, Dr. Williams says.
If heart problems are ruled out, it's still important to get to the bottom of your symptoms, Dr. Khaitan says. Heartburn is a symptom of gastroesophageal reflux disease, or GERD. The condition can cause difficult or painful swallowing, hoarseness and even frequent ear infections. Additionally, GERD can cause ulcers to develop in the esophagus.
Because GERD can cause such complications, it's wise to see a specialist if symptoms persist, Dr. Khaitan says.
Barbara Williams, MD, is a cardiac disease specialist with University Hospitals Harrington Heart & Vascular Institute.
Leena Khaitan, MD, is Director of the Esophageal & Swallowing Center and the bariatric surgery program at UH Cleveland Medical Center and UH Geauga Medical Center.


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Principals Crack Down on Harmful Student Behaviors
Mary Pat Cumming, principal at the FAIR School in Minneapolis, is working with a student and parent to create a course on consent for juniors and seniors.
—Ackerman + Gruber for Education Week
Leaders confront students' hazing, drinking, and sexual violence
By Arianna Prothero and Sasha Jones
When Brad Seamer became principal of the joint middle and high school in a small South Dakota town in 2008, his predecessor warned him about the hazing. It was best to just look the other way, Seamer remembers being told.
In Salem, a rural community on the east side of the state, there had been a long-standing tradition that many of the current students' parents had experienced: Around homecoming every year, seniors would take freshmen out into surrounding cornfields for an "initiation ceremony."
But as Seamer learned the details of the ritual—senior football players paddling lowerclassmen and dumping manure on their heads—he decided it had to stop.
He threatened to call police on students. He made football players sit out during games—no small punishment in Salem. He warned freshman students and their parents about the hazing they might encounter.
And despite strong pushback from some quarters—including parents who challenged his authority to punish students for their behavior outside of school—Seamer refused to back down.
"The kids that were participating in this—they never thought they were bad kids. …" said Seamer. "I just felt they had the wrong perspective, and it was my job to change their perspective."
Seamer never doubted that ending the hazing was his job. "It was affecting the freshmen's learning environment, and we went after it."
Seamer's experience strikes at a persistent issue facing school leaders. How much leverage can they—and should they—use to ward off damaging and dangerous student behavior, be it hazing, underaged drinking, bullying, or sexual assault that takes place outside school walls and school days? And what can school leaders do when they encounter pushback from parents, the community, or even from within their own ranks?
This is not a new challenge for principals and other school leaders. In 1990, Education Week published a story about headmasters of several Washington-area private schools imploring parents to stop allowing students to throw large, unsupervised parties where "excessive drinking and sexual license are common." But questions around what role principals and educators play in shaping student behavior, judgment, and character are increasingly front and center, amid the reach of social media and shifting cultural expectations driven by the #MeToo movement and, most recently, the controversial hearings for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, who was accused decades later of sexual assault while in high school.
Three recent examples highlight the thorny, sometimes criminal behaviors that school leaders must confront:
Five teenagers in Damascus, Md., have been charged with second-degree rape for allegedly assaulting or attempting to assault four of their junior varsity football teammates with a broom in a locker room. Leaders in the Montgomery County, Md., school system said they are investigating whether the incident is part of a broader hazing culture at Damascus High School. Superintendent Jack Smith and two other senior district leaders sent a video message to all high school students condemning the acts and reminding students that those who harass, bully, or abuse others will be held accountable.
A video of high school students in Southlake, Texas, chanting the "N-word" quickly circulated on social media last month, according to local media. Although the racist incident occurred off-campus, district officials demanded that the video be taken down and said in a letter to parents and staff that students involved would be disciplined.
A principal in Maryland who sought to crack down on underage drinking at prom in 2016 barred students who were caught doing so from participating in commencement ceremonies, but the disciplinary measures were reversed by the interim superintendent, according to local media.
Uncharted Waters
Oftentimes, though, principals can feel like they are in uncharted waters. Such was the case for Mary Pat Cumming, the principal at the FAIR School, an arts-magnet high school in Minneapolis.
A student, along with her mother, recently approached Cumming with a specific request. Could she, they asked, require students to take sexual-consent and -assault training?
Their case was compelling. Seventeen-year-old Isadora Colón told Cumming she had been sexually assaulted, and neither she nor her mother wanted another student to go through the confusion and helplessness they had felt as they tried to figure out what to do after the assault. And should the worst happen, Isadora and her mother, Natalie Hart, wanted families to know what to do.
Isadora was moved to talk to Cumming as she listened to student chatter taking place at the height of the hearings for Kavanaugh. What she heard students saying about the accusations against Kavanaugh was alarming. She was worried that her peers saw youth as a kind of get-out-of-jail-free card.
"Students were saying, 'oh, he was just young, he didn't know what he was doing,' or kind of making the perpetrator the victim in the story," she said. "And I think that in itself was a clear sign that there needs to be some sort of program, teaching about how it's not just the fact that the perpetrator is young and naïve, it's that the perpetrator isn't aware of consent, doesn't know about it."
Cumming agreed right away to take on Isadora's request. But after surveying her fellow principals in the district, she realized no one was tackling the issue with a comprehensive curriculum. She's building her own, with input from Isadora and her mother and with experts from community groups who'll talk with students about consent throughout the upcoming semester.
The FAIR School Principal Mary Pat Cumming, left, is working with student Isadora Colón, center, and her mother, Natalie Hart, to develop a course on consent.
All students are taking part, Cumming said, and parents, too, will be brought into the discussions.
The program will also focus on perpetrators of sexual assault, at Isadora's request, and how they and their families should handle coming to terms with their actions.
The hope, Isadora said, is that if other families find themselves in the same position, they won't feel as lost as she and her mother did.
"Before my experience, I'd never ever in my life heard before, 'If you are assaulted, the first step you should take is 'blank,' " said Isadora. "I had never heard anyone tell me ... what I should do in that situation."
Her mother said this is the time to make the greatest impact.
"The more we do talk about it ... we can change the conversation," said Hart. "Reaching people when they're young, when they're hitting puberty ... that's the golden opportunity."
Schools vs. Parents
About 9 percent of young people ages 14 to 21 have committed some type of sexual violence, be it attempted rape, rape, or sexual coercion, according to a 2013 study by researchers from the Center for Innovative Public Health Research in San Clemente, Calif., and the University of New Hampshire.
Thirty percent of high school students drink some alcohol, according to the federal Centers for Disease Control's 2017 Youth Risk Behavior Survey, and 14 percent binge drink.
And 22 percent of Americans experienced hazing during high school, according to a 2017 YouGov poll.
These behaviors—drinking, hazing, and sexual violence—often happen in varying combinations. And even when those behaviors occur completely outside of school, they often have a dramatic effect on students' learning.
Although there is a lot of focus on preventing hazing and sexual assault on college campuses, these behaviors usually start before then, said Michele Ybarra, the chief executive officer and research director of the Center for Innovative Public Health Research and one of the co-authors of the study on sexual violence.
"Our research does support this idea that sexual violence does seem to be emerging in high school, and we need to be talking to our teenagers and we need to be talking to them before they start having sex," Ybarra said. "We need to talk about consent before that."
A range of factors can contribute to a student's behavior, said Ybarra, such as seeing spousal abuse in the home, watching violent pornography, being a victim of sexual violence, and drinking alcohol.
She said educators can play an important role in helping teenagers make healthy choices outside of school.
But it's not entirely up to schools. Parents have the most critical influence, said Caitlin Abar, an assistant professor at the State University of New York at Brockport, who studies parental influence on young adults' substance abuse.
"Perhaps contrary to popular belief, while peers are an important element, in the vast majority of healthy adolescents, parents maintain an important role in their lives," she said. "While adolescents may seek peers on social processes, they're still checking in with their parents on the big issues."
Sometimes, principals have to contend with parents aiding and abetting teenage drinking, as was the case in a Bethesda, Md., high school in the fall semester of 2016. Three local teenagers had died in alcohol-related car accidents in the past two years. After learning of students drinking at parties while the parents were home, the school's principal emailed all parents, imploring them not to allow students to drink or provide them with alcohol. The principal warned that not only are there hefty fines for adults who allow underage drinking to take place in their homes, there is also the risk that teenagers will get into a bad accident.
Pervasive Drinking
Abar said the notion that allowing adolescents to drink under parental supervision helps demystify drinking and teaches young adults their limits, is a myth. Sometimes called the "European model," Abar said young European adults have higher rates of substance abuse.
"Alcohol, drugs, they're not friendly to brain cells," she said. "We know that the earlier that you are exposed, the more likely you are to be addicted."
At J.W. Mitchell High School in Pasco County, Fla., Principal Jessica Schultz is attacking underage drinking by focusing on educating parents.
Schultz realized that some students in her school had a drinking problem during the 2017 prom, when 50 of them were involved in a situation related to alcohol. Seventeen prom-goers were formally disciplined.
Students had been drinking at homecoming, football games, even in the classroom, but, for Schultz, the prom was the breaking point.
"I'm tired of seeing this. It's heartbreaking to watch a kid be passed out because they drank too much and be sitting at your school, in your dance arena," Schultz said. "That is not what I want as a high school principal. That is the last thing I want."
The next year, J.W. Mitchell High partnered with Mothers Against Drunk Driving to target not the students, but their parents.
Now, if a student wants to attend a school dance, his or her parent must attend a 45-minute workshop led by MADD to discuss the dangers of alcohol and drug use. Parents who cannot attend in person have the option to take part in an online seminar, which times out if the parent does not actively engage with it.
More than 75 percent of students' parents have participated in the workshops, Schultz said. Since implementation, no students were disciplined during the 2017 homecoming dance, and only four students were disciplined during the prom last spring.
Karyn Smith's daughter attended the 2017 prom, and her son is currently in 11th grade. Although her children were never disciplined for drinking, Smith remembers waging bets with her family as to how many students would get in trouble for alcohol use. This past year, no one was able to guess how low the numbers would be.
"It was a great sounding board, and, because it was a requirement from the school, my kids didn't see it as me being heavy-handed," Smith said.
According to MADD, 3 out of 4 teenagers say their parents are the leading influence on their decisions about drinking. By targeting parents, the program hopes that these conversations trickle down to the students and throughout the community.
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"A lot of times, when it comes to alcohol, parents don't really understand the dangers because the laws around alcohol have changed," said Kim Morris, MADD's national senior director of programs. "There's a big mismatch between the experience of today's parents and the research of today."
Schultz said that she received some backlash from parents, many of whom saw the workshops as the school telling them how to parent. She remembers reading Facebook comments calling her a prude and driving home from work in tears.
"I know I stuck my neck out, but I will say, if I ever went to another school, I'd do it again," Schultz said. "If one kid benefits from it, then I've done my job."
Research librarian Maya Riser-Kositsky contributed to this report.
Coverage of social and emotional learning is supported in part by a grant from the NoVo Foundation, at www.novofoundation.org. Education Week retains sole editorial control over the content of this coverage.
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from indy import wallet, signus

from ..utils import storage
from ..utils.wallet import create_and_open_wallet

import json
import pytest
import logging

logging.basicConfig(level=logging.DEBUG)

@pytest.fixture(autouse=True)
def before_after_each():
    storage.cleanup()
    yield
    storage.cleanup()

@pytest.fixture
async def wallet_handle():
    handle = await create_and_open_wallet()
    yield handle
    await wallet.close_wallet(handle)

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async def test_verify_signature_works(wallet_handle):
    pool_handle = 1
    (did, ver_key, _) = await signus.create_and_store_my_did(wallet_handle,
                                                             '{"seed":"000000000000000000000000Trustee1"}')
    identity_json = {
        "did": did,
        "verkey": ver_key
    }

    await signus.store_their_did(wallet_handle, json.dumps(identity_json))

    message = {
        "reqId": 1496822211362017764,
        "identifier": "GJ1SzoWzavQYfNL9XkaJdrQejfztN4XqdsiV4ct3LXKL",
        "operation": {
            "type": "1",
            "dest": "VsKV7grR1BUE29mG2Fm2kX",
            "verkey": "GjZWsBLgZCR18aL468JAT7w9CZRiBnpxUPPgyQxh4voa"
        },
        "signature": "65hzs4nsdQsTUqLCLy2qisbKLfwYKZSWoyh1C6CU59p5pfG3EHQXGAsjW4Qw4QdwkrvjSgQuyv8qyABcXRBznFKW"
    }

    valid = await signus.verify_signature(wallet_handle, pool_handle, did, json.dumps(message))
    assert valid


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Tag Archives: Andrew Sean Greer
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Andrew Sean Greer, Brian Aldiss, David Hume, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gordon Eklund, H.G. Wells, Jay Lake, Lewis Carroll, Malcolm Ross, Martin Amis, Philip K. Dick, Soren Kierkegaard, T.H. White
This example from my Cognitive Mapping columns was written and first published in 1999, in Vector 207, September-October 1999, to be exact. At the time I was writing about a rarely used science fictional device (as I say in the column, it is an easy and comic thing to do in film but not so easy, and certainly not so comic, in fiction); but since then it seems to have become somewhat more common. There was, for instance, the film of Scott Fitzgerald's 'Benjamin Button' (a story I had missed), there was a rather fine novel by Andrew Sean Greer, The Confessions of Max Tivoli, that came out in 2004, and I remember coming across the device, or something like it, in a story by Jay Lake. So maybe there is something about the device that speaks more to the 21st century than it does to the 20th? Continue reading →
Love in a cholera of time
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Andrew Sean Greer, Audrey Niffenegger
Ever since Andrew Marvell lamented: 'had I but world enough and time…' the passage of time has been a cliche of romantic writing. Love is eternal, yet love inevitably runs into the end of time when Romeo and Juliet lie dead in each other's arms. Now two debut novelists have both found ways to twist time to the service of the love story, and though both are replete with science-fictional, or at least fantastic, devices, both have been published theoretically as mainstream novels. Perhaps when the metaphor of science fiction is familiar is when a work stops being dismissed as science fiction.
Both of the novels have considerable strengths and occasional weaknesses, both promise much for the writer's future. Of the two, I think The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger (Cape, 2004) is fractionally the stronger, partly because the emotion of the love story hits you right from the start and is sustained throughout the book, even at those moments when you think there cannot be anywhere fresh for her to go. The Confessions of Max Tivoli by Andrew Sean Greer (Faber, 2004) has, if anything, a more complex and interesting love story, but because one vital strand of it is hidden, or smothered, until very close to the end of the book, most of the novel is not punching to its full weight. Niffenegger is not afraid of sentiment, but fortunately avoids sentimentality, you are emotionally linked to her characters from the very first words; Greer is altogether cooler and his characters are less likeable, it takes time to get to know them and feel anything for them. Niffenegger's book ranges from the late 1960s to 2053, but because her focus is so tightly on her two protagonists there is hardly any period detail at all; Greer takes us further back in time, ranging from the 1870s to the 1930s, and period detail is one of the rich streams of the book, anchoring us very precisely in the time of which he writes.
The Time Traveler's Wife – you know, I'm vaguely irritated that Cape kept the American spelling for the title – is the story of Henry and Clare from their first meeting, when Henry is 36 and Clare is 6, to their last meeting, when Henry is 43 and Clare is 82. Henry is cast loose in time; without warning and without control (though usually in times of stress) he disappears from the present leaving just a pile of clothes, and reappears naked in another time. Niffenegger is good on the mundane details of such an affliction: the need to find clothes, which means developing skills in picking locks and stealing; the risks of frostbite, of assault, of arrest; the chance of materialising before people you know or in places that cannot be escaped; and the fatalism that comes with knowing what is going to happen. There are occasions when it feels Niffenegger is throwing something new into the pot simply to sustain a drama that is running low on energy; but these moments come early in the novel and before too long she has the flow of what she is telling and from then on she feels fully in control of her narrative. It is a tragedy, of course, anything in which our mortality is highlighted has to be a tragedy, but it is a tragedy to be read with genuine relish.
By those lights, The Confessions of Max Tivoli is also a tragedy, in many ways even more so because more people are harmed by the way time is made sclerotic; yet it feels as though it were written as a comedy, and it was only gradually that Greer began to realise how unfunny the story had to be. Here the central character, Max, is not cut loose in time, but disfigured by it. He is born old, and grows younger; but because everything in his life runs directly counter to those around him, his attempts to love are blighted also. As an apparently old man of 17 he falls in love with 14-year-old Alice, but she, not unnaturally, rejects him. In middle age he meets Alice again (she doesn't recognise him) and they marry, though the marriage is not a success. Finally, as an old man who appears to be 11, he worms his way into Alice's family, sharing a room with his son (who is older) and about to be adopted by his wife. Thus the bones of the novel, but this love story has two other strands, both of which focus on Hughie, the one person who knows Max's secret and stays loyal to him throughout his life. We know that Alice, as a child, fell in love with Hughie and regarded him as the one true love of her life, though Max contrives to separate them. (Both of these novels suggest that anyone disordered by time must be ruthless.) What we are not told, until half-way through the book, is that Hughie is homosexual (in America at the turn of the twentieth century, Max sees that as a disfigurement much like his own, but that interesting comparison is not developed); and it is not until the last pages of the novel that we learn that Hughie has been in love with Max all along. This self-destructive triangle is the real tragedy of the novel, but it never becomes the focus of the novel because of the way that Greer deliberately hides the one side of the triangle that makes the structure stable. I suspect he felt that bringing this into focus would detract from the originality of the notion of aging backwards; on the contrary I feel it would probably have given it even more meat.
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Egypt car crash sets off deadly explosion outside Cairo hospital
At least 19 people were killed and 30 others injured in explosion outside Egyptian capital's National Cancer Institute.
Prosecutors and experts on explosives have arrived at the scene to investigate [Aly Fahim/AFP]
At least 19 people were killed and 30 others injured in an explosion outside Egypt's National Cancer Institute in central Cairo, Egypt's health ministry said early on Monday.
The interior ministry said one car was speeding and collided with the others, causing the explosion late on Sunday.
But why the crash caused such a large explosion was not immediately clear. It also was not clear if the casualties were all from the vehicles.
Videos posted online showed fire tenders trying to control a massive fire that damaged several cars.
The cancer treatment facility was evacuated after the crash, which happened near the famed Tahrir Square.
Bank security worker Abdel-Rahman Mohamed said, "We heard an explosion and ... the bank entrance glass was shattered everywhere."
The bank is at the opposite side of the hospital.
The health ministry said the injured people were taken to hospitals for treatment.
Egypt's public prosecutor is investigating the cause of the incident, sources told Reuters news agency. There was no official statement indicating that the explosion was an attack.
Sources told Al Jazeera that a team of prosecutors, criminal laboratory and bomb experts has arrived at the scene of the explosion.
Road accidents are common in Egypt. The country's official statistics agency says 8,000 crashes last year caused more than 3,000 deaths and 12,000 injuries.


I was, unfortunately, experiencing "Crazy Time" mode (also a book title) when a divorce situation caught me completely off-guard back in 2001. It was impossible for me to focus on gaming as there were a ton of mental struggles going on (as kids were involved). But, hey, if someone divorces and it's on their terms and expected as a positive outcome to start, yes -- I can see a fast increase in solitaire gaming time for sure!
When I was first divorced, I couldn't play complex games.


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Flybe Looks To Close Its Base On The Isle Of Man – Simple Flying
UK regional airline and largest regional operator in Europe, Flybe, has today outlined plans for the future of its Isle of Man base. While the base is to close for Flybe in time, the airline says the closure will be 'under a phased and managed program'. Stobart Air will continue to provide services to and from the island.
The Flybe Q400 will no longer serve IoM. Photo: Dylan Agbagni via Wikimedia
The recently acquired airline, bought by Virgin Atlantic led consortium Connect Airways, has said the decision is part of a review of its network requirements. In a press release published today, Flybe said,
"Following a thorough review of its future fleet and network plans, Flybe … announced changes to its Isle of Man operations to be completed through a phased and managed programme by the start of Summer 2020."
New services from Stobart Air
Under a new agreement with fellow UK regional airline Stobart, a change in aircraft will be seen at the start of the new year. According to Flybe, the two DeHavilland Q400s that currently serve the island will be replaced by the 'more economically viable' ATR 72-600s.
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These new aircraft will continue to operate the established routes from the Isle of Man, including to Birmingham, Liverpool and Manchester. Flybe state that Stobart is particularly successful with the ATR, and that these short routes are far better suited to this type of aircraft than to the iconic Flybe Q400.
Stobart will use the ATR 72 to maintain Flybe routes. Photo: Transport Pixels via Wikimedia
The airline adds that its contract with the Department of Health and Social care on the island will remain intact. This means passengers looking to access health services in mainland UK will still be able to gain support via the Flybe team.
These new services with the ATR aircraft are slated to begin with the arrival of one ATR on January 5th, 2020. The second will arrive on March 29th. At this point, Stobart will take over the Isle of Man operations entirely from Flybe.
However, one service which will not be recommenced is the seasonal Heathrow service which was operated throughout summer 2019. This, they say, was only a short term venture, and will take its last flight on 26th October, 2019.;
No more base in IoM
With the introduction of these Stobart services in the new year, Flybe will no longer need a physical base on the Isle of Man. While the airline declined to comment specifically on any job losses associated with the closure, it has said that all team members based on the island have been personally informed.
Flybe says the ATR is more suited to these short routes than the Q400. Photo: Jo Bailey/Simple Flying
According to the press release, Mark Anderson, CEO of Connect Airways, visited the island personally and discussed future plans with employees. At the meeting, he also discussed the airline's future plans with a number of key stakeholders, including Minister Raymond Harmer, Department of Infrastructure; Nick Black, Chief Executive and Tim Baker, Member of House of Keys, Department of Infrastructure; Mark Lewin, Chief Executive, Department for Enterprise; Ann Reynolds, Director of Ports and Jez Spake, Deputy Airport Director.
Flybe referred Simple Flying to its press release for comment on the situation, in which it states,
"Providing Isle of Man customers with a good choice of connections and a great customer experience remains Flybe's number one priority. Customers can continue to take advantage of one-stop connections that will remain available from Isle of Man to the world with its airline partners Virgin Atlantic, Emirates, Qatar and Air France via Flybe's Birmingham and Manchester hubs."
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Sultana Kamal: They don't understand reason
Tribune Desk
Published at 08:10 pm June 3rd, 2017
Rights activist Sultana Kamal has said that the Islamic fundamentalist group Hefazat-e-Islam cannot engage in a reasonable argument. After the group threatened violence against her and demanded her arrest over a conversation in a television talk show, Sultana told the Bangla Tribune on Friday over phone that her statement had been grossly misinterpreted. "You cannot have a proper debate with Hefazat," she said. "They do not want to accept rational arguments. The government should take action against them for threatening ordinary citizens with physical violence." Hefazat's Mufti Shakhawat Hossain was a guest at the talk show besides Sultana and other politicians and activists. The issue that day was the removal of the Lady Justice statue from the Supreme Court premises. "That day, a question was raised that what is the issue with the sculpture being there. The Hefazat representative said it is an idol, a religious symbol and it should not be on the court premises," Sultana said. "So I said, I agree with you, the court premises should not have any religious edifice. But according to you, the mosque should not be there either." Asked about the threat, she said: "You cannot say anything in this country. There can be no reasonable debate." In reply to a question, Sultana said: "Let the government see that they are issuing open threats. The government arrests so many people on so many issues. If someone says anything about the prime minister, they are arrested. This group has even said things about the Chief Justice."
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Mamunul asked to appear before Comilla court on December 23
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Overdue for a change: IPS is poised to roll out new English curriculums
By Dylan Peers McCoy
Teacher Kimberly Meyers reads with a first grader at School 46 in Indianapolis Public Schools.
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For more than a decade, teachers in Indianapolis Public Schools have come and gone. Students have grown from kindergartners to high schoolers. What has not changed during that time is the English curriculum provided to many of the district's middle and high school teachers.
That's because, amid years of budget freezes, it's been about 12 years since the school system adopted a new English curriculum for secondary schools and seven years for elementary schools. Officials said every six years is a typical window for selecting new curriculum — a costly endeavor for any district. Newer curriculum is important because the options are more likely to be aligned with state standards, which were chosen in 2014, and include more diverse student experiences.
For educators, the aging materials have meant they must supplement, for example by coming up with their own writing assignments and plans for discussing novels. And for students, it's meant reading books that are sometimes worn with use.
Indianapolis Public Schools, however, is aiming to roll out new English curriculum for kindergarten through 12th grade as soon as next school year.
"It's going to be a huge win for both teachers and students," said Amanda Koth, director of instructional design and support for the district, who noted teachers will also get trained to use the new curriculum. "This is just a big stepping stone into providing great quality instruction."
The move comes at a time when curriculum is getting renewed focus from national education leaders and advocates. During a public interview to lead the district, Superintendent Aleesia Johnson cited her work on spearheading this overhaul of the district English curriculum as one of her accomplishments as deputy superintendent.
This year, 11 schools across the district are piloting several English curriculums for elementary, middle, and high school grades. Indianapolis Public Schools officials plan to use what they learn to help decide what material to adopt across the district. Because the district has many schools that have independence in their academic approach, such as specialized magnet programs, campuses sometimes use other materials.
Packaged programs like those the district is looking to purchase typically include an array of materials, such as texts that students read, assignments, and lesson plans.
At School 46, a K-8 school on the southwest side with about 400 students, Principal Allyson Peterkin said teachers had all but abandoned the older curriculum for many grades. In early grades, they are not satisfied with the reading instruction, said Peterkin. It only asks kindergartners to memorize eight sight words. Typically, students that age are expected to memorize 50-60 words. In middle school, the books were outdated and tattered.
As a teacher, Peterkin liked to create her own materials, translating research on phonics, for example, into work for her students. But now that she is principal of School 46, Peterkin wants educators in her school, which is also known as Daniel Webster, to have a good curriculum to start with. That's because Peterkin doesn't want teachers who don't have the time or interest in making class materials to feel like they are forced to — or to reach for curriculum shared online that might not be high-quality or backed by research.
"What I'm looking for with this pilot is really finding a great foundation that we use 80% of the time, and the teachers really know how to supplement," Peterkin said.
For Kimberly Meyers, a first-grade teacher piloting the new curriculum at School 46, it's a relief not to feel like she has to develop or pull together her own materials to teach English well.
"It was frustrating because I didn't feel like I had enough time to do so," said Meyers. With the curriculum she is piloting — Into Reading by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt — she is using many of the readings and lessons it includes. "I feel like I can still add my knowledge to it or my ways of teaching it."
There are challenges to using a new curriculum, though. Over the five years that Anthony Holabird has taught middle school English at School 46, he's developed his own lessons and assignments based on district guidelines for what students should be learning throughout the year. "That freedom let me do something I was interested in and the kids got interested in," he said.
This year, he is piloting a new curriculum called Wit & Wisdom with his seventh-grade class. It's been a challenge for the students to learn the new approach, which requires them to keep three separate notebooks and toggle between working on their own, in small groups, and as a whole class, Holabird said. He's also significantly behind schedule on the lessons in part because they are designed for 90-minute periods and he doesn't know them well enough to know what to leave out.
But he is enthusiastic about the quality of the material, from the questions students contemplate to the activities they do to the novels they read.
"Everything feels pretty important. Everything ties back," Holabird said. "There's not a lot of chaff to cut out."
Dylan Peers McCoy @dylanpmccoy dmccoy@chalkbeat.org
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Pam came up with an intriguing blanket term for delicious, Flickr, GMail, blogging, and the rest of Web 2.0: webology.
My mom had a couple of interesting names for this: internet guy, fanatico.
Update: I'm getting closer to a name for this space. It's what Barlow is talking about in his "Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace": "Cyberspace consists of transactions, relationships, and thought itself, arrayed like a standing wave in the web of our communications." I don't like the term "cyberspace" -- it is fairly worn out these days. But Barlow's meaning is what I'm after. So what is a more up-to-date term for the utopia that Barlow is describing?
Internet? That's the foundation on which the city is built, not the city itself.
Internet culture? There are several different areas of interest on the internet, each with their own culture e.g. The geek culture, the online-dating culture, the gaming culture. I'm looking for an overarching term describing the whole.
The online lifestyle? Better, but it needs more precision.
Update: I've figured out a name: Personal IT.
posted by Jonathan at 2/28/2005 11:40:00 p.m.